I paper piece my flying geese. No cut off points and accurate every time.

For scrap quilts, I make 2.5" HST blocks. One side of HST is a light neutral, other side is color/print/etc. Lots of contrast and easy to make. Lots of different patterns for quilts: 4 blocks with the colored sides (or neutral sides) facing center = diamonds. Rows of HST with colors all in same place = vertical rows. Alternating rows, color on right, next row color on left = zigzag pattern.

Hope these suggestions help.

Ricky Tim's Flying Geese
 

Check out Ricky's method of folding for flying geese on You Tube.

This was interesting and simple. Certainly would be fast but I am wondering about the multiple layers of fabric when you begin to join the geese together. Geese are on my radar because this week-end at retreat, I am making a quilt that is all geese. No Ricky Tim's method because my no waste geese are already cut and packed ready to go.:) Will try the RT method another time.

I saw your post where you made some. I think that works!

Absolutely beautiful.

Was there supposed to be a link with this? I haven't seen it.

My flying geese are usually more like lame ducks. Until I discovered that my machine has a quilting function on it that lines the needle up perfectly to use the right edge of my presser foot. The 1/4" foot is Not accurate with my machine's center needle position and was causing problems. Once I got an accurate 1/4" it made all the difference.

I have a discontinued Brother SQ Project Runway edition (I think it's the 9050). I've only had the machine for three years, so it's not like I had time to read the manual or anything. :rolleyes: :D

I don't have a problem making flying geese, but it depends on the pattern how I assemble them. Flip and stitch if I can make at least a 1" square from the cutaway. Latest method is the 4 @ a time, which is super efficient - a good thing bc I needed 456 for the latest. I actually ended up doing more than that, bc the book has an error in color placement. They do have a work around, but being a little OCD, I couldn't handle it. So I set aside the 216 I had with the wrong placement and redid them. Sooner or later, those little buggers (finish @ 1" x 3") will be used for something. Probably a border. Or possibly sides on stars?

I've also got and have used the Wing Clipper; it was required for a class. It does make perfect geese, but that is a real waste of fabric as you are intentionally making them over sized and trimming down.

For squaring FG, I highly recommend the Bloc Loc rulers. Pricey, but so helpful!

Paper piecing, for me, was the way to go for FG. I always seemed to avoid patterns with FG or I made them differently with HST to avoid them because they hardly ever were accurate.